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First off: Happy Holidays to anyone who is celebrating them!

This morning, Antonio Rojas Castro asked me to translate a some German definitions from Patrick Sahle’s Digitale Editionsformeninto English. In the spirit of the holidays, I decided to help Antonio (and anyone else who is interested) out, and post my translation of these definitions here. (Please note that this is not something I plan to do with any kind of regularity; if you have a similar request you can always ask my on Twitter, but I’m afraid much will depend on whether I can find the time to do it). These are my own translations, not the official translations by any means, and I invite anyone (and especially Patrick Sahle) to suggest emendations in the comments.

ALSO: The words in boldin my translation are words that are not exactly present in the original, but that I thought were implied.

A scholarly digital edition is determined by the fact that it meets the general requirements of a scholarly edition while taking the current technical possibilities of the digital medium into account. It follows a ‘digital paradigm’.

If one would want to define the scholarly digital edition by contrasting it to its printed counterpart, it could be said that:

A scholarly digital edition is determined by the fact that it cannot be reduced to a typographical (printed) format without the loss of essential information and functionalities – in this sense it surpasses the printed edition.

Document. In a narrow sense of the word, a document is a carrier of written information. In a broader sense, it is a material bound unit of information. In the latter case, the information in question is not necessarily written down, or even verbal.

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